OUR MISSION

Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator and intellectual whose career now spans four decades. Renowned for the convention-shattering nature of her work, Chicago has served as pioneer for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, and a woman’s right to freedom of expression. Her seminal work, The Dinner Party (1974-79), is a monumental, collaboratively created, mixed-media tribute to women which in March 2007 will be installed in its new permanent home at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Chicago's art is exhibited frequently in the United States and internationally. Her ten books, published in several languages, have brought her art and philosophy to readers around the world.

Judy Chicago will give a lecture on August 20th at the Wellfleet Congregational Church.

Ella Jackson Chair Honors:
Mary Frank
Mary Frank is a visual artist known primarily as a sculptor. She has also produced many paintings and works in various other media (especially printmaking). Her works are in New York's Whitney Museum, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and many others. She is represented by DC Moore Gallery, in New York; her most recent show was in January 2008.

Mary Frank will teach a class in Drawing and Painting: August 18 - 22

The Joyce Johnson Chair Honors:
Malcolm Davis
Malcolm Davis has been a full-time studio potter since 1984 when he left his previous life as campus minister. He took his first ceramics class in 1974 and since 1985 has maintained his mountaintop studio in Upshur County, WV. He is internationally recognized for his work with shino-type glazes, specifically for the creation of a unique shino-type formula with a high concentration of soluble soda ash, which encourages the trapping of carbon in the early stages of the firing.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including four grants from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and was a finalist in the 1995 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/NEA Visual Artists Fellowships.

Malcolm Davis will teach a Fall Clay Intensive September 1 - 5

The presidents chair honors:
Dorianne Laux
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the 2005 Oregon Book Award. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States and chosen by the Kansas City Star as a noteworthy book of 2005. Laux is also author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) introduced by Philip Levine, recently reprinted by Eastern Washington University Press, What We Carry (1994), now in its 7th printing, and Smoke (2000). Red Dragonfly Press will release Superman: The Chapbook, later this year. Co-author of The Poet's Companion, she's the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Best American Erotic Poems Prize, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Best of the American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, and she's a frequent contributor to the New York Quarterly, Orion and Ms. Magazine. Laux has waited tables and written poems in San Diego, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Petaluma, California, Eugene, Oregon and Juneau, Alaska. In 2008 she will move to Raleigh, N.C. where she will join the faculty at North Carolina State.

Dorianne Laux will teach a class called “What Makes a Poem Memorable?”
August 4 - 7

The Mary Lou Friedman Chair Honors:

Michael Burbank
Michael Burbank is a self-taught artist and "junk" collector. He's been scouring beaches, bottle dumps, and rust farms for years looking for the odds 'n sods that spark his imagination. Burbank has exhibited his shadow boxes and assemblages at the Perrin Gallery in Boston, the Concord (MA) Art Association, the Cherrystone gallery in Wellfleet, and at PAAM in Provincetown. He has installed commissioned works of assemblage in private collections in Boston, North Carolina, San Francisco, and Wellfleet.

Michael Burbank will teach a class in Found Object
Sculpture August 18 - 22

The Gallery at Castle Hill Schedule of Shows
Openings are on alternating Thursday afternoons from 4 – 6pm

Members Open Exhibition, June 16 - 27, “For No Reason” party, Opening reception June 19.

Artists on Board! Featuring work by Castle Hill’s Artists Advisers and Staff,
June 31– July 11, Opening Reception July 3.

Artists Reaction to War, - Juried by Daniel Heyman, July 15 – 24, Opening reception July 17.

Auction Preview Show, July 29 – August 7, Opening reception July 31. AUCTION August 9!

New Faculty Invitational, August 12 – 22, Opening reception August 14.

Works on Paper and Ceramic Show, August 26 – September 5, Opening reception August 28.

Town Open Show - open to artists from Truro, Provincetown, and Wellfleet, September 9 - 19, Opening reception September 11.

Castle Hill "Paints the Town" Show, September 23 - October 3, Opening reception September 25.

Art by Writers, October 6 - 17, Opening reception October 8.

Other Special Events – Save the Dates!

Raku Extravaganza & Ceramic Show and sale – May 24 & 25

For No Reason Party – June 19

Castle Hill Summer BASH – July 19 with live worldly music by BIG JAZZ, martinis, and dancing. A guaranteed good time.

Castle Hill Live & Silent Benefit Auction with fabulous auctioneer: Jim Bakker– August 9

Modernist House Tour – August 24

Poetry Reading on the back deck – August 27, by students and faculty of Alan Feldman and Tony Hoagland’s Poetry Wokshop, and in conjunction with the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC).

Castle Hill “Paints the Town”
in conjunction with the Great Provincetown Schooner Regatta Race – September 6, lunch generously donated by Ptown Parties! Aboard the Portuguese Princess! FREE event

Funding provided by the Provincetown Visitors Service Board.

Provincetown Dance Festival – October 24 & 25, 2008

Tuesday Evening Series at the Wellfleet Public Library
$10 admission – Free for Castle Hill Members
8pm on Tuesdays at the Wellfleet Public Library in Wellfleet.

July 8 – Caroline Rand Herron, Former Staff Editor of the New York Times Book Review.

July 15 – Anthony Walton, author of “Mississippi: An American Journey”and historian and scholar of African American history.

July 22 – Daniel Heyman, will discuss his work making portraits of Iraqi torture victims as personal political statements and as part of a long tradition of printmakers who recorded wars in their art. .

August 5 – Harry Cooper, curator of the National Gallery.

August 12 - Franco Sacchi, Independant Director/Producer/Editor whose feature length film This is Nollywood, portrays the unknown world of the Nigerian home video industry.

August 19 – Steven Pinker, Harvard linguist and psychologist.

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